Which of the following is true about understanding level of teaching?

The teaching-learning process, generally operates at three levels which include: i) Memory level; ii) understanding level; and (iii) reflective level. 

Key Points

• Teaching-learning at the understanding level emphasizes the comprehension of the meaning of something when it is taken out of that particular context.
• It means seeing solitary facts about general principles.
• Comprehension means mastery of the subject matter.
• It is reached when a thorough understanding of the subject matter is gained through planned learning.
• It involves exploration, presentation, assimilation, organization, and recitation through oral presentation or in the form of a written paper.
• This type of teaching-learning can be carried out with the students in senior primary classes.

Thus at the understanding level of teaching to comprehend the concepts .

Additional Information

• Memory level of teaching-learning means committing factual information to memory.
• The reflective level of teaching-learning is at the highest in the hierarchical order of mental processes.
  • It is not an isolated and unitary process of memorizing factual information for future recall but it seeks to know how knowledge changes, grows, and is interpreted.
  • Students, at this level, develop curiosity, interest, inquiry, and persistence which culminates in a scientifically determined conclusion or solution to a problem.
  • Teaching-learning at a reflective level involves careful and critical examination of an idea or problem through the ‘problem-solving approach’.